Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These operations bring out effects of many kinds and on different levels of abstraction : high-quality or low-quality products or services ; radically new products or only small improvements in the old ones ; high or low job satisfaction among employees ; commercial profit or loss . |
| 2 | Experts ruled out equipment failure as a million-to-one chance . |
| 3 | Few hats hanging on OSF/1 peg |
| 4 | And while products make up 28% of turnover , the group also has a strong recurring revenue stream , and is keen to exploit it further — 28% of income comes from maintenance , 44% from services : consultancy , technical support and training . |
| 5 | In some instances Community law itself may permit or require Member States to carry out inspections or take other measures , but it is now clear that the Council or Commission may not authorize a Member State to take measures which go beyond those which would be justified under Article 36 . |
| 6 | So he 's retired into the kitchen , of all places , and we 're having to feed him people to meet one by one , like birds bringing back food for their young . ’ |
| 7 | After a dull launch to the new season , London 's commercial art galleries pick up speed with a really exciting list of new exhibitions . |
| 8 | Timber sales generated an income for the FC of £84.8 million in 1991/92 , with other operations bringing in £21.7 million . |
| 9 | Government relied on its house-building campaign , postponing action on slum housing , though calling for more information from local authorities to carry out surveys of their areas . |
| 10 | BR has joined forces with 15 local authorities to carry out improvements to the trackside view on key routes . |
| 11 | The NUM 's main trouble with the courts arose over actions brought by its own members on the grounds that the union had broken its own rules ( over a pre-strike ballot ) and for contempt . |
| 12 | As long ago now as 1974 , Michael Maguire argued a need for a semantic ethnography of police systems and the criminals they pursue ; and there has been a subsequent trickle of attempts to carry out participant observation inside the world of ‘ cops and robbers ’ . |
| 13 | The threat comes from plans to contract out services to the private sector . |
| 14 | We spent hours mulling over maps and descriptions of countries . |
| 15 | The country 's farm-workers and labourers make up 17% of the population , yet they are ignored by the mass media . |
| 16 | Threatened groups bring in wives from outside and thus establish important social links promising external support and succour . |
| 17 | Though property-disputes were no doubt very often settled informally , through arbitration by senior family-members , for instance , and so have left no trace in the written record , some recorded cases arose over property-claims held or transmitted through women , especially widows . |
| 18 | LOCAL AUTHORITIES drawing up plans for the community care reforms will have to consult with the private and voluntary sector , the new Department of Health guidelines say . |
| 19 | Each Council has its own plans for its area and is very willing to advise and in many cases back up advice with grant aid . |
| 20 | I just do n't want to see similar signs appearing up mountains as hill-walking grows more popular Where would it all end ? |
| 21 | They hacked and sliced at one another till there was no meaning left , only a confusion of bloodthirsty syllables spelling out absurdity . |
| 22 | Here the X-rays knock off chlorine atoms one after another until there are only VOC-like compounds left , which are finally destroyed . |
| 23 | It would , however , have been interesting to see what relationships might have been revealed had WIRS picked up information on casual workers , since casual working ( albeit involving direct employment ) is also a considerably less regulated form of temporary working and gives an employer considerable disposition over his labour inputs . |
| 24 | In 1868 a flood of unprecedented proportions washed away most of the caissons ( the strong cases keeping out water while the foundations are built ) while the Skerne 's trusses were found to be flawless . |
| 25 | As authorities built up resources and expertise , and became able to take on the responsibility for making available all land needed for particular types of development , the secretary of state was to have made orders providing that land for development of the kind designated in the order and in the area specified by the order must have passed through public ownership before development took place . |
| 26 | They had these cab-drivers in Israel using taxi frequencies to pass on intelligence to Cyprus , and as it came in , so they 'd pass it up the line to the PLO office in Nicosia . |
| 27 | lets candidates build up credits over an extended period |
| 28 | Soldiers set up barbed-wire fences , electricians wired up searchlights , carpenters built barracks and sentry boxes on elevated platforms . |
| 29 | Neither of the main parties ruled out formation of a coalition ; no party in Israel had ever won the 61 seats necessary to secure a majority in the Knesset . |
| 30 | JD and the Left Front parties ruled out participation in a coalition , but agreed to support a Congress ( I ) minority government from outside on specific issues . |